Far-right election winner Giorgia Meloni has vowed to govern for all Italians as she is set to be announced as the country’s first female Prime Minister – and its most right-wing leader since Mussolini.
Meloni, head of the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, said voters have given a clear mandate to the right to form the next government and called for unity to help confront the country’s many problems.
She added: ‘If we are called upon to govern this nation, we will do so for all Italians, with the aim of uniting the people, of exalting what unites them rather than what divides them. We will not betray your trust.’
As polls in the run up to Sunday’s vote indicated her as the likely winner, Meloni has moderated her far-right message in an apparent attempt to reassure the European Union and other international partners.
She said ‘this is the time to be responsible’, before describing the situation for Italy and the EU as ‘particularly complex’.
It comes after an exit poll for state…
